Update X when laptop lip is closed

[Chris Hill]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Yuri Pankov wrote:

> Noah Palmer wrote:
>> is there a way to automatically remove or add the display to X when the
>> laptop lid is opened or closed. I have been using a script to read
>> dev.acpi_lid.0.state, but is there better way? Also what is the proper way
>> to reply to someone while using a mailing list. Do you reply to the person
>> or freebsd-questions at freebsd.org.
>
> If you are polling the dev.acpi_lid.0.state value, see /etc/devd.conf for 
> examples of ACPI events notification, so you could invoke the need actions 
> when lid is open/closed.
>
> As for the reply policy, I don't think there's one, so I just press "Reply 
> all" in Thunderbird -- if someone doesn't want to be answered directly, they 
> could (and usually do) set the Reply-To to the list.

Historically, the reply policy for freebsd-questions has been to reply 
to the person and cc the list. Other lists may differ.


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Chris Hill               chris at monochrome.org